Chapter 17 I've Got Your Back

Marielle Duvall hurried after Rowan Blackwood, pleading with him all the way. Behind the door, Chloe Bennett listened as their voices faded into the distance, her hands tightly clenched. Rowan Blackwood was truly heartless. Five years ago, he had betrayed her, betrayed their marriage. When he became involved with Selina Vaughn, he hadn't been this cold and unfeeling. She still remembered seeing them at the hospital—Rowan's tender attentiveness toward Selina, the look of wild joy on his face when he learned she was pregnant. Now he could discard a woman he once adored as if she meant nothing. What place could she, his former wife, possibly hold in his heart? Perhaps she had been wrong from the start. She shouldn't have loved this man. He was cold, emotionless—a stone no warmth could ever melt. Though she had long known this truth, Marielle's heart still ached involuntarily. The bitter struggles of the past five years surged through her mind once more—the roaring flames, the bodyguard's